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M4 Max: The Future of Mac Gaming
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Compare to a 4090? There is no way you got any data?
Yeah this would be a huge headline if true. Definitely not the case.
Claims made without facts backing it up. However from a laptop perspective, there is absolutely no doubt the M4 Max is the current performance king. No need to blow smoke, we know it'll be good. Instead do a YouTube video showing your framerates/benchmarking results and compare it directly to a 4090. One's "comparable" is another peeps "doesn't at all compare".
I'm awaiting the cost/performance of the M4 Ultra in a Mac Studio or future Mac Pro setup. Not for gaming, but video editing with FusionFX heavily layered in. Unless it's fundamental, I'd likely setup a 128GB PC with a couple RTX 4090's for cheaper.
Because the 4090 will smoke the m4 on gaming. Also the 5090 is coming in q1 of 2025 and that will be 20% at worst faster than 4090.
2020: M1 is the future of Mac gaming
2022: M2 is the future of Mac gaming
2023: M3 is the future of Mac gaming
2024: M4 is the future of Mac gaming …
I swear I see this kind of posts year after year. The issue doesn’t lie in hardware people, it’s software.
And if you argue that “but developers will take the platform more seriously because of the performance”, nope, when have Macs ever underperformed? The demand is not there and it takes a lot of work to port the game for MacOS, meaning the ROI is questionable.
Even higher end Intel Macs never had great gaming GPUs, and Apple Silicon models with 8GBs of RAM suffer to run recent titles.
I agree OP is being way too hopeful, but this year even the weakest Macbook Air is a reasonably capable gaming machine, so in a purely hardware-wise sense it is an evolution
Source: Trust me bro
The rasterization performance is several generations behind NVIDIA flagship cards.
What a weird post.
When you consider you could build a 4090/9800X3D system with peripherals and a 4K screen for the same cost as the M4 Max it makes very little sense from a gaming perspective.
The only time this makes sense if you already need the Max for work.
The issue isn’t the hardware on the high end. The issue now is game studio buy-in, and adequate support for gaming on the lower end to justify porting to macOS.
What exactly is there to throw at it?
My problem is never the performance but the lazy crippling behavior of games, on Dota 2 for example shaders aren’t precached so you always experience stutter when they first play out
Using an M3 Max luckily it’s at least a faster stutter, I think by M6 Max or something it can be faster than a frame and become unnoticeable